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Last change on this file since 082353ae was 082353ae, checked in by Igor Živković <igor@…>, 11 years ago

Added FAM to GLib's optional dependencies.

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY glib2-download-http "&gnome-download-http;/glib/2.34/glib-&glib2-version;.tar.xz">
8 <!ENTITY glib2-download-ftp "&gnome-download-ftp;/glib/2.34/glib-&glib2-version;.tar.xz">
9 <!ENTITY glib2-md5sum "a4ca31e258273c3761e3de2edd607661">
10 <!ENTITY glib2-size "6.1 MB">
11 <!ENTITY glib2-buildsize "225 MB">
12 <!ENTITY glib2-time "1.6 SBU (additional 5.0 SBU to run the test suite)">
13]>
14
15<sect1 id="glib2" xreflabel="GLib-&glib2-version;">
16 <?dbhtml filename="glib2.html"?>
17
18 <sect1info>
19 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
20 <date>$Date$</date>
21 </sect1info>
22
23 <title>GLib-&glib2-version;</title>
24
25 <indexterm zone="glib2">
26 <primary sortas="a-GLib2">GLib2</primary>
27 </indexterm>
28
29 <sect2 role="package">
30 <title>Introduction to GLib</title>
31
32 <para>
33 The <application>GLib</application> package contains a low-level
34 libraries useful for providing data structure handling for C, portability
35 wrappers and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an
36 event loop, threads, dynamic loading and an object system.
37 </para>
38
39 &lfs73_checked;
40
41 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
42 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
43 <listitem>
44 <para>
45 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&glib2-download-http;"/>
46 </para>
47 </listitem>
48 <listitem>
49 <para>
50 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&glib2-download-ftp;"/>
51 </para>
52 </listitem>
53 <listitem>
54 <para>
55 Download MD5 sum: &glib2-md5sum;
56 </para>
57 </listitem>
58 <listitem>
59 <para>
60 Download size: &glib2-size;
61 </para>
62 </listitem>
63 <listitem>
64 <para>
65 Estimated disk space required: &glib2-buildsize;
66 </para>
67 </listitem>
68 <listitem>
69 <para>
70 Estimated build time: &glib2-time;
71 </para>
72 </listitem>
73 </itemizedlist>
74
75 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">GLib Dependencies</bridgehead>
76
77 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
78 <para role="required">
79 <xref linkend="libffi"/>,
80 <xref linkend="pkgconfig"/> and
81 <xref linkend="python2"/>
82 </para>
83
84 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
85 <para role="recommended">
86 <xref linkend="pcre"/> (built with Unicode properties)
87 </para>
88
89 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
90 <para role="optional">
91 <xref linkend="attr"/>,
92 <xref linkend="dbus"/> (required to run the tests)
93 <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/> and
94 <ulink url="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/">FAM</ulink>
95 </para>
96
97 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Additional Runtime Dependencies</bridgehead>
98 <para role="optional">
99 Quoted directly from the <filename>INSTALL</filename> file;
100 <quote>Some of the mimetype-related functionality in GIO requires the
101 <command>update-mime-database</command> and
102 <command>update-desktop-database</command> utilities</quote>,
103 which are part of
104 <xref linkend="shared-mime-info"/> and
105 <xref linkend="desktop-file-utils"/>, respectively.
106 </para>
107
108 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
109 <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/glib2"/>
110 </para>
111 </sect2>
112
113 <sect2 role="installation">
114 <title>Installation of GLib</title>
115
116 <para>
117 Install <application>GLib</application> by running the following
118 commands:
119 </para>
120
121<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-pcre=system &amp;&amp;
122make</userinput></screen>
123
124 <para>
125 The <application>GLib</application> test suite requires
126 <application>desktop-file-utils</application> in order to run. However,
127 <application>desktop-file-utils</application> requires
128 <application>GLib</application> in order to compile; therefore, you must
129 first install <application>GLib</application> and then run the test
130 suite.
131 </para>
132
133 <para>
134 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
135 </para>
136
137<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
138
139 <para>
140 You should now install <xref linkend="desktop-file-utils"/> and proceed to
141 run the test suite.
142 </para>
143
144 <para>
145 To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
146 </para>
147
148 </sect2>
149
150 <sect2 role="commands">
151 <title>Command Explanations</title>
152
153 <para>
154 <parameter>--with-pcre=system</parameter>: This switch causes the
155 build to use a system-provided version of the
156 <application>PCRE</application> library instead of an internal
157 version.
158 </para>
159
160 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
161 href="../../xincludes/gtk-doc-rebuild.xml"/>
162
163 </sect2>
164
165 <sect2 role="content">
166 <title>Contents</title>
167
168 <segmentedlist>
169 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
170 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
171 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
172
173 <seglistitem>
174 <seg>
175 gdbus, gdbus-codegen, gio-querymodules,
176 glib-compile-resources, glib-compile-schemas,
177 glib-genmarshal, glib-gettextize, glib-mkenums,
178 gobject-query, gresource, gsettings, gtester
179 and gtester-report
180 </seg>
181 <seg>
182 libgio-2.0.so, libglib-2.0.so, libgmodule-2.0.so,
183 libgobject-2.0.so and libgthread-2.0.so
184 </seg>
185 <seg>
186 /usr/include/gio-unix-2.0,
187 /usr/include/glib-2.0,
188 /usr/lib/gdbus-2.0,
189 /usr/lib/gio,
190 /usr/lib/glib-2.0,
191 /usr/share/glib-2.0,
192 /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gio,
193 /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/glib and
194 /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gobject
195 </seg>
196 </seglistitem>
197 </segmentedlist>
198
199 <variablelist>
200 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
201 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
202 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
203
204 <varlistentry id="gdbus">
205 <term><command>gdbus</command></term>
206 <listitem>
207 <para>
208 is a simple tool used for working with
209 <application>D-Bus</application> objects.
210 </para>
211 <indexterm zone="glib2 gdbus">
212 <primary sortas="b-gdbus">gdbus</primary>
213 </indexterm>
214 </listitem>
215 </varlistentry>
216
217 <varlistentry id="gdbus-codegen">
218 <term><command>gdbus-codegen</command></term>
219 <listitem>
220 <para>
221 is used to generate code and/or documentation for one or
222 more <application>D-Bus</application> interfaces.
223 </para>
224 <indexterm zone="glib2 gdbus-codegen">
225 <primary sortas="b-gdbus-codegen">gdbus-codegen</primary>
226 </indexterm>
227 </listitem>
228 </varlistentry>
229
230 <varlistentry id="gio-querymodules">
231 <term><command>gio-querymodules</command></term>
232 <listitem>
233 <para>
234 is used to create a giomodule.cache file in the listed directories.
235 This file lists the implemented extension points for each module
236 that has been found.
237 </para>
238 <indexterm zone="glib2 gio-querymodules">
239 <primary sortas="b-gio-querymodules">gio-querymodules</primary>
240 </indexterm>
241 </listitem>
242 </varlistentry>
243
244 <varlistentry id="glib-compile-resources">
245 <term><command>glib-compile-resources</command></term>
246 <listitem>
247 <para>
248 is used to read the resource description from file and
249 the files that it references to create a binary resource
250 bundle that is suitable for use with the GResource API.
251 </para>
252 <indexterm zone="glib2 glib-compile-resources">
253 <primary sortas="b-glib-compile-resources">glib-compile-resources</primary>
254 </indexterm>
255 </listitem>
256 </varlistentry>
257
258 <varlistentry id="glib-compile-schemas">
259 <term><command>glib-compile-schemas</command></term>
260 <listitem>
261 <para>
262 is used to compile all the GSettings XML schema files
263 in directory into a binary file with the name gschemas.compiled
264 that can be used by GSettings.
265 </para>
266 <indexterm zone="glib2 glib-compile-schemas">
267 <primary sortas="b-glib-compile-resources">glib-compile-schemas</primary>
268 </indexterm>
269 </listitem>
270 </varlistentry>
271
272 <varlistentry id="glib-genmarshal">
273 <term><command>glib-genmarshal</command></term>
274 <listitem>
275 <para>
276 is a C code marshaller generation utility for GLib closures.
277 </para>
278 <indexterm zone="glib2 glib-genmarshal">
279 <primary sortas="b-glib-genmarshal">glib-genmarshal</primary>
280 </indexterm>
281 </listitem>
282 </varlistentry>
283
284 <varlistentry id="glib-gettextize">
285 <term><command>glib-gettextize</command></term>
286 <listitem>
287 <para>
288 is a variant of the <application>gettext</application>
289 internationalization utility.
290 </para>
291 <indexterm zone="glib2 glib-gettextize">
292 <primary sortas="b-glib-gettextize">glib-gettextize</primary>
293 </indexterm>
294 </listitem>
295 </varlistentry>
296
297 <varlistentry id="glib-mkenums">
298 <term><command>glib-mkenums</command></term>
299 <listitem>
300 <para>
301 is a C language enum description generation utility.
302 </para>
303 <indexterm zone="glib2 glib-mkenums">
304 <primary sortas="b-glib-mkenums">glib-mkenums</primary>
305 </indexterm>
306 </listitem>
307 </varlistentry>
308
309 <varlistentry id="gobject-query">
310 <term><command>gobject-query</command></term>
311 <listitem>
312 <para>
313 is a small utility that draws a tree of types.
314 </para>
315 <indexterm zone="glib2 gobject-query">
316 <primary sortas="b-gobject-query">gobject-query</primary>
317 </indexterm>
318 </listitem>
319 </varlistentry>
320
321 <varlistentry id="gresource">
322 <term><command>gresource</command></term>
323 <listitem>
324 <para>
325 offers a simple commandline interface to GResource.
326 </para>
327 <indexterm zone="glib2 gresource">
328 <primary sortas="b-gresource">gresource</primary>
329 </indexterm>
330 </listitem>
331 </varlistentry>
332
333 <varlistentry id="gsettings">
334 <term><command>gsettings</command></term>
335 <listitem>
336 <para>
337 offers a simple commandline interface to GSettings.
338 </para>
339 <indexterm zone="glib2 gsettings">
340 <primary sortas="b-gsettings">gsettings</primary>
341 </indexterm>
342 </listitem>
343 </varlistentry>
344
345 <varlistentry id="gtester">
346 <term><command>gtester</command></term>
347 <listitem>
348 <para>
349 is a test running utility.
350 </para>
351 <indexterm zone="glib2 gtester">
352 <primary sortas="b-gtester">gtester</primary>
353 </indexterm>
354 </listitem>
355 </varlistentry>
356
357 <varlistentry id="gtester-report">
358 <term><command>gtester-report</command></term>
359 <listitem>
360 <para>
361 is a test report formatting utility.
362 </para>
363 <indexterm zone="glib2 gtester-report">
364 <primary sortas="b-gtester-report">gtester-report</primary>
365 </indexterm>
366 </listitem>
367 </varlistentry>
368
369 <varlistentry id="GLib-libraries">
370 <term>GLib libraries</term>
371 <listitem>
372 <para>
373 contain a low-level core libraries for the
374 <application>GIMP</application> Toolkit.
375 </para>
376 <indexterm zone="glib2 GLib-libraries">
377 <primary sortas="c-GLib-libraries">Glib libraries</primary>
378 </indexterm>
379 </listitem>
380 </varlistentry>
381
382 </variablelist>
383
384 </sect2>
385
386</sect1>
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